How Long to Read A Collection of Short Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read A Collection of Short Stories?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read A Collection of Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An enchanting new collection of twenty-nine short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez, a master storyteller who “forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life” (New York Review of Books) Spanning more than two decades, this collection combines humor, history, and mysticism to tell stories about the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, lost opportunities and present joys, memories, illusions, death, and other themes that resound throughout García Márquez’s fiction. Stories include: “The Third Resignation”“Eva Is Inside Her Cat”“Tubal-Cain Forges a Star”“The Other Side of Death”“Dialogue with the Mirror”“Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers”“How Nathanael Makes a Visit”“Eyes of a Blue Dog”“The Woman Who Came at Six O’clock”“The Night of the Curlews”“Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses”“Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait”“A Man Arrives in the Rain”“Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo”“Tuesday Siesta”“One of These Days”“There Are No Thieves in This Town”“Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon”“Montiel’s Widow”“One Day after Saturday”“Artificial Roses”“Big Mama’s Funeral”“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”“The Sea of Lost Time”“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”“Death Constant beyond Love”“The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”“Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles”“The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

How long is A Collection of Short Stories?

A Collection of Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez is 291 pages long, and a total of 73,041 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Collection of Short Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 39 minutes to read A Collection of Short Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is A Collection of Short Stories?

A Collection of Short Stories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy A Collection of Short Stories?

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